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Christopher Clark

Christopher Clark, a Cambridge historian, is depicted wearing glasses and a dark suit, with a serious expression, against a neutral background.

Cambridge historian whose 2012 book The Sleepwalkers reframed the question of war guilt in 1914. Rather than naming a single aggressor, Clark portrayed the European powers as locked in a web of mutual misreading and alliance reflex that made escalation almost mechanical once the Archduke was dead. The book reshaped the centenary debate and remains a touchstone in the long historiographical argument over July 1914.

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